All this summer, Gov. George Pataki and his son, Owen, 14, were reading together, for pleasure, Tolkien’s 1,800-page fantasy epic, ‘The Lord of the Rings.” Since Sept. 11, the governor has found himself picking up the book at 4 a.m., unable to sleep because of the adrenaline surging in his veins, the worries filling his head. [More]
Day: October 16, 2001
Just to tell you that the official phone line of The Lord of the Rings here in France (the one for the phone cards contest – 0892 700 753) has just announced specials screenings of the 3 LOTR trailers this sunday morning in all UGC CINE CITE (big theaters across all France). The new trailer will be shown for the first time in theaters in France.
Thanks to Kaplan for that.
Tolkien-nut Thengelus found another review of the promotional DVD that New Line is sending out to people who buy their DVD-player at the New Line shop. This DVD has already been reviewed by our very own Calisuri, his review can be found here.
Also check out our exclusive Oct 2nd review of this LOTR DVD. [More]
New Line Cinema is currently offering a promotion that will get fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy masterpiece The Lord Of The Rings to break out in sweat… [More]
Beautiful work from Kalayna: “You posted a link to my site back in late May/early June when I did a set of webpages featuring the images from the May 25th Trailer which I’d reorganized into Chapter by Chapter order [as opposed to the sequential order of your frame-by-frame analysis]. Anyway, I’ve just finished doing the same thing for the latest trailer (from September 24th). [More]
The LOTR movies are getting some attention in Greece, with magazine articles and of course the official website in Greek. [More]
News from Circi in Greece: “The top selling Athens weekly events review “Athinorama” includes a special edition on all new films for the coming 2001/2002 season,sponsored by Village cinemas. LOTR features prominently. Frodo’s huge-eyed caricature reigns on the cover over various other film characters from such films as “A.I.”, “Moulin Rouge” and “Harry Potter”. Then on the inside there is the famous poster of Frodo holding the Ring with the caption “History becam a Legend and the Legend became a Myth”, LOTR-FOTR, December 2001. Then PJ is the only director included in an article titled “13 faces for the new year”, showing him posing as a Hobbit smoking a pipe in Bag End. Here are some quotes: “Who could open the huge cultural chapter that is called “The Lord of the Rings”, if not a true fan? The relatively unknown Peter Jackson from New Zealand, has taken over the responsibility of bringing to life the prolific vision of Professor Tolkien. The simoultaneous filming of all three films has taken epic proportions and many people wonder if the “brilliant lunatic” director of cult splatters like “Braindead”, but also of the excelent “Heavenly Creatures” can shoulder such weight. Answers shortly at a cinema near you…” The film synopsis is full of mistakes so I wont bother translating. I just hope this means we will get to see the latest trailer at the movies soon and be part of the worldwide premiere on December 19th.”
Also news from Greek Elessar: At last we have the official site in Greek!!! Everything you wish about tolkien and his work is there.(and the movies of course)
If you know Greek(or you are just curious)go there!!! [More]